The St Albans Primary Schools Consortium - which brings together all primary headteachers from across the district - has issued a joint letter calling on parents not to let their children have a smartphone before they are 14. It follows months of campaigning by the Smartphone-Free Childhood WhatsApp movement, which includes...
Harpenden Town Council has confirmed Cllr Pip Liver as the Mayor for 2024-2025. The Mayoral Chain was presented to the new Town Mayor by Cllr Fiona Gaskell, Town Mayor for 2023/24, who gave a valedictory speech and offered her congratulations to Cllr Liver on her new position. The Deputy Mayor was also...
For any professional rugby player, there will always be a point in your career when it’s time to hang up your boots, but exactly what you do afterwards is perhaps not as obvious. After tenures with major local clubs, plus a stint representing his native Wales, Will Harries made the perhaps...
STANTA (St Albans Enterprise Agency) welcomed over 100 guests to mark its 40th anniversary. Attendees at the OAK Sport Club included past clients of the Agency, fellow business contacts from the St Albans and Harpenden community, along with representatives from other enterprise agencies and representative bodies. Also attending were local dignitaries including...
Founder and CEO of mental health awareness charity It’s OK To Say, Stacey Turner shines the light on a week important to the whole community. Mental Health Awareness Week for me is all about raising awareness of the year-round struggles people face with reminders of the help and support available. This year’s...
From butterfly spotting to barefoot yoga in one of St Albans’ wonderful parks, from listening to the dawn chorus to watching bats at dusk, Herts and Middlesex Wildlife Trust is inviting the local community to take part in 30 Days Wild and connect with nature this June. Over the past decade,...
Much-loved historic pub Ye Olde Fighting Cocks has been given five stars out of five in its latest food hygiene rating. The pub, in Abbey Mill Lane, had been downgraded to just one star following an inspection in March which identified issues with food safety. As soon as the score was received,...
There will be no U-turn over controversial plans to eliminate free parking bays across the district, the new leader of SADC has confirmed. Free car parks in Redbourn, Park Street and London Colney, and one and two hour bays across Harpenden town centre will all incur charges later this year. Although the...
Having spent many years in charge of Beaumont School’s sixth form, it was possible any meeting with new SADC leader Cllr Paul de Kort might have felt like being called to the headmaster’s study. In reality I need not have worried, because our interview at the Saint and Sinner was a...
A developer has launched an appeal in a bid to obtain planning permission to build 95 houses on Green Belt in Park Street. The application, which relates to building on farmland opposite the BP garage in Watling Street, was first submitted in February 2022. The applicant made several adjustments to the application,...
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